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# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## Re: INSIGHT - EUROPE/ECON - View of the ongoing Eurozone crisis

Released on 2012-09-18 00:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1124334
Date | 2011-03-07 16:08:28
From | robert.reinfrank@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com
List-Name | analysts@stratfor.com

***fyi, for some reason your emails (marko's emails) are coming through as
being sent from preisler.
"London is screwed" corroborates our analysis of the situation from Feb
2010.
On 3/7/2011 9:00 AM, Benjamin Preisler wrote:
Source(s) not yet coded, meeting with Zurich headquarters of a large
U.S. investment firm (most of the people in the firm were Swiss or
German, very few Americans).
Had a good meeting with around 10-15 investors who handle the investment
firm's clients. I was the one talking mostly because they wanted to hear
what we as a company had to say about two issues: 1) The Eurozone crisis
and 2) The unrest in the Middle East. However, I did manage to ask them
some questions myself.
1) Zurich-London as financial headquarters
I asked if there was a risk of Zurich and London losing their stature as
financial capitals. They said that Zurich really did not. One thing
about Switzerland is that it is no longer allowed to have its banking
secrecy laws. That is certainly going to hurt. But that is going to hurt
mainly the private banking sector in Geneva. The big investment/retail
behemoths of UBS and Credit Suisse are not going to be hurt. They were
in fact already being hurt by privacy laws. For decades it was so easy
to be a banker in Switzerland. People would just give you ton of money.
So the big banks had no experience in actually doing banking. When the
secrecy laws were removed, UBS and Credit Suisse actually had to learn
how to compete for capital and do banking. That was good for them.
As for people depositing their money somewhere else... that is not going
to happen. Switzerland is still a place with very low taxes. It is still
ludicrously good for life and has great schools. Arabs are not going to
start giving money to Singapore because of secrecy laws. People will
still want to live and take their money to Switzerland. They will just
find different ways to make their deposits in the banks if they are that
concerned with secrecy.
London is screwed. That was the consensus.
2) Risks to the Eurozone
Most investors in Europe have realized that the Eurozone will not
collapse. However, they are also worried about how the Eurozone would
have to be restructured. They really felt that this was coming and that
it would happen. Especially to Greece.
The other issue that they expressed a lot of concerns with was
immigration. We spent about 5-10 minutes talking about unchecked
immigration and how the situation in Libya plays into that.
Overall, they were only marginally more informed about the political
situation in Europe than the U.S. financial crowd I usually talk to.
They, for example, knew where Baden-Wuerttemberg was, but they still had
no idea why elections there might matter. They were also completely
clueless about Middle East. The Germans in the crowd, also had no idea
what was going on politically in Germany and were fascinated to hear
that their own country was "back" and that it was making power moves in
Europe, rather than just rescuing everyone with a blank check.
--
Marko Papic
Analyst - Europe
STRATFOR
+ 1-512-744-4094 (O)
221 W. 6th St, Ste. 400
Austin, TX 78701 - USA